Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.oeru.org

We pay to Steam, Netflix, Amazon prime, Spotify. But not to Wikipedia, Archive.org, Librivox, Project Gutenberg, for our favourite Linux distro.

The huge asymmetry between corporate and community has not emerged naturally. It is a product of our choices of not supporting community oriented projects.

The short conveniences vs the long-term good. We always chose the former.

In face of surveillance capitalism, we must and must change.

E-Voting App Maker Voatz Asks The Supreme Court To Let It Punish Security Researchers For Exposing Its Flaws - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200903/16005645245/e-voting-app-maker-voatz-asks-supreme-court-to-let-it-punish-security-researchers-exposing-flaws.shtml how about no? also: don't use #evoting for anything...

Glorious in Canterbury today. Great way to start the week!

"Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it"

Great post!

https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy

Auspicious start to the week here in Canterbury! Spring is arriving...

Spotted (photo by my son) on a recent trip in Christchurch, New Zealand...

I have some great news about Boston Public Schools and free software. You may know that my Co-op has been hosting some Boston Public School courses over the summer using free software.
Assessments of student progress shows that the teachers that stuck with BBB had better assessment scores for their students!! Especially the Math teachers. Scores were SIGNIFICANTLY higher by about 10-15 percentage points and it is believed that is because BBB allowed for student engagement more than Zoom did.

Free professional development online course: Master the basics of #OER and #creativecommons
in partnership with UNESCO
and ICDE.
Reserve your seat today at: https://oer.nz/unesco-20-09

"There’s Now an Even Worse Anti-Encryption Bill Than EARN IT"

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-now-even-worse-anti-encryption-bill-earn-it-doesn%E2%80%99t-make-earn-it-bill-ok

Get your IT business out of the US. This needs to have an impact on the economy.

View over the plains from a recent ride up a hill (just before the current rainy patch hit over the weekend).

Been playing with Ardour lately (a full-blown commercial-grade #FOSS Digital Audio Workstation)... version 6 has just been released, and it's impressive. Wow. Audio-wonks and sound engineers, have a look! https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

@mackiwg Prompted by your words of motivation, I share my certificate and badge here. Thank you for all your efforts in facilitating us from various parts of the world to achieve this.

Yes - open isn't about total "purity". It's all about honest intent - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html (and this is aligned with one of my most read blog posts: https://davelane.nz/nethui-insight-open-about-intent )